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On Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:07:18 AM UTC-4, chainbreaker wrote:
> OK, I'm getting on in years and somewhat addled a lot of the time, but I can 
> still hear well enough to know when only the front speakers of my 5.1 setup 
> are working.  Soooo, I check in the audio device settings to see not a 5.1 
> speaker config, but a 2 speaker stereo config, which I assume is being reset 
> that way every time I reboot, god knows why.
> 
> So then, after several days of wondering why NWN2s surround/5.1 sound 
> basically sounded like shit, I decided to to some checking around in the 
> forums, and lo and behold, let there be light!  Or sound, rather, but no 
> matter.
> 
> It seems that there's a line in the nwn.ini THAT'S TELLING MY MACHINE TO SET 
> ITSELF TO A TWO SPEAKER STEREO CONFIGURATION!!!!  And leaving it that way.
> 
> What horseshit.  Well, my addled brain is able to discern that that answers 
> two questions at once, at any rate, so what's the fix?
> 
> Turns out you need to edit TWO nwn.ini files--both the one in the game 
> folder and the one in the Documents/Saves folder.  Anyway, here's a quote 
> from a post made NOVEMBER 17 on the official forum, and that's not even a 
> Sticky, for godssakes, not that it would matter much, since there are so 
> many stickys dealing with other crap that it'd be hard to notice:
> <start quote>
> Apparently Obsidian forgot to either include in the options or fully remove.
> 
> Here's a working work around that won't require you to download an external 
> program or edit a file every time you play.
> 
> Go into your save directory (Default is My Documents -> Neverwinter Nights 
> 2) and open the nwn.ini.
> 
> Now go to the bottom of the sound options and type in one of the following 
> options.
> 
> Speaker Type=0 ;for 2/2.1
> Speaker Type=1 ;for Surround
> Speaker Type=2 ;for Headphones
> Speaker Type=3 ;for 4.1
> Speaker Type=4 ;for 5.1
> Speaker Type=5 ;for 7.1
> 
> Save the file, and you're done!
> <end quote>
> 
> What incompetence that such a situation hasn't been fixed after what, 3 
> patches, but that it even exists in the first place.
> 
> Just to make things clear--you'll have to CHANGE the speaker type option in 
> the nwn.ini file in the /Atari/Neverwinter Nights 2 folder if you have other 
> than 2 speakers--this is the one that was resetting my system's speaker 
> config every time I ran the game.  I had to edit Speaker Type=0 to Speaker 
> Type=4.
> 
> Then you'll have to ADD the line Speaker Type=(x), where (x) is your speaker 
> config to the nwn.ini file in the /Documents/Neverwinter Nights 2 folder.
> 
> There was always a running joke in the two Diablo-related newsgroups about 
> the Blizzard programmers being "crack monkeys".  I think it may be time to 
> pass the torch to Obsidian.
> -- 
> chainbreaker

Thank you

om working on this